On 2012-03-04 at 20:36 +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Phil Pennock <openbsd-misc-p...@spodhuis.org> wrote: > > > There's a leap-second on July 1st and I'm not seeing any equivalent > > configuration for OpenNTPd to the reference implementation's "leapfile" > > directive, to use a distributed leap-seconds file to let ntpd know of > > the leapseconds epoch rollover. > > Can anybody explain to me, or point me to an explanation, why leap > seconds are a concern for ntpd at all rather than for zoneinfo?
Unix systems keep UTC (typically without 61-second-minute support) rather than TAI. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time and "Unix time across midnight when a UTC leap second is inserted" -Phil
